Joanna
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>Chris:
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>>weren't all controlled by the state. Personally I
>>doubt that the Okhranka was involved, since I don't
>>see what they would have to gain from a pogrom
>>(property damage was immense, and they hurt the
>>Empire's image abroad badly. The Okhranka were not morons.).\
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>Venting of popular frustrations, which were very intense. My grandma who
>remembered pre-revolutionary times told me that peasant violence was
>directed at about everyone they could put their hands on. She told me a
>story about someone of an upper class origin who was separated from a
>hunting party and run into an angry peasant mob - the police later could not
>even recognize his body. Isaak Bashevis Singer - a keen observer of social
>life - writes about horrible peasant mob violence such as boiling people
>alive (_The Magician of Lublin_), and description of peasant mob violence
>are abound in literature (see for example _Painted bird_ by Jerzy Kosinski,
>who btw was accused of plagiarizing these descriptions from the novel
>_Peasants_ by the 1924 Nobel laureate Wladyslaw Reymont.)
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>Wojtek
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